Sisters!

So I found an artist yesterday that I really liked, named Terra Bidlespacher.  She does gorgeous pictures of fairies and girls which she calls "Fantasy Fairy Lowbrow Art".  She inspired me and I made my first attempt at her "style" of art using my daughters as inspiration.  Its not really hers, I blended it with a few other styles to make my own.  I still want to challenge my hand to see if I can duplicate her style. 

Whenever you do art, challenging yourself with other artists styles can help you grow...

Anyways, I am hoping you guys can help me out.  I want to post up some children's (or adults) art blended with mine.  So please take this picture and print it out and color it.  It's mine - I give you permission, so no worries about copyright.  Then send it to me at dollighted.letia at gmail.com!

I'll post any that I receive to the first 100.  So send them my way!

Sand and Sea Pudding

This week She-she and I are studying the Sea for preschool, and on today's list was a delicious treat that I am enjoying so much I figured I'd share.

Sand and Sea Pudding - a piece of the Beach.

Sand and Sea Pudding

Auntie and She-she mixing up the jello

Here's the yummo recipe!

Sea Jello
1 small box of blue Jello (We used Berry Blue)
1 small box of green Jello (We used lime)
Your fave berries for "Fishes" - we used 7 strawberries, and 7 cherries, and 1 banana sliced into 7 pieces.  (7 is our number of the week if you hadn't guessed.)

Prepare Jello as instructed on the box, stir the fruit in about 45 minutes in the fridge so there are some under the water and some above and its bumpy like waves.

Sand Pudding

(I honestly eyeballed most of this and it came out fantastic, which is great when you are doing this with young children inevitably some ingredients end up on the counter, the original recipe called for whipped topping too, but I didn't have any so I just cut it - so good and not necessary in my opinion!)

She-she grinding up the sand, we used a rolling pin to crush.

3/4 box of Nilla Wafers (I saved enough for some snacks for the rest of the week, as She-she had never had them)
2-3 Oreos (or black knock off frosted cookies, they're for color more than flavor.)
6-8 oz. whipped cream cheese
1/2 stick butter
2/3 c powdered sugar
1 box of Vanilla pudding
1 box of Coconut cream (You can interchange either flavor as you wish.  I was thinking one butterscotch and one vanilla would be good next time.)
2 3/4 cup milk

Start by putting the cookies and wafers in a zip top bag and letting your preschooler go at it, crush those cookies, crush them! (You can also use a food processor, but so much more fun for the kids to grind it up.)  Once all "sandy" set aside.

Whip together the cream cheese, butter and sugar, set aside.  Prepare the puddings, and mix them into the cream cheese mixture.  This is mostly to keep it nice and smooth.  Then top your set up Sea Jello with the pudding, and pour the "Sand" over that.  Its so good.

Bella-Boo's Water Obstacle Course

This is actually a project my sister and her man did for my niece's birthday, but its so clever and fantastic that I had to post it up for the world to see!

All that was used for it was PVC Pipe, waterproof glue, and a drill or hand saw.

To quote my sister, "You take the PVC pipe.  With some glue.  Make a cut here and there and TADA!!! Obstacle course! Lol."

I'm thinking next summer this is on my to do list!

Bella-Boo and Z runnin' through the obstacle course!